I have no position on the controversy everybody is yapping about right now

[bluestateguy]

Thank you.

[bravenak]

1. Nor do I

[guillaumeb]

2. Denial will not help you.

Admit that your non-position is actually a position.

[randys1]

3. To Uber or not to Uber, that is MY question

[Rex]

4. I see three right now, so be specific.

Like GD ever has just one controversy at any given time. Is it about the banned member? The fight between people over civil rights vs economic justice or the person that was on the cover of the new Vanity Fair?

[hfojvt]

5. Azrael, is that you?

Fence sitters, how I hate them

You do realize that "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".

I also hate that I cannot find a clip of the proper scene in "Dogma"

[ms liberty]

10. My personal hypothesis...

Is that there is a Neil Peart lyric for every situation. You've beaten me to the punch with this one!

[hfojvt]

12. I don't restrict to one band or one songwriter

sort of like Bill, or Ted, I answer many things with song quotes, but sometimes also movie quotes or book quotes. Usually with a YT video.

Like I tell people on FB, I really wanted to be Wolfman Jack when I grew up, so linking to music videos is my way of playing DJ.

[ms liberty]

14. I don't restrict either, but Rush does have a huge catalogue...

And they are one of my favorite bands. Mr liberty and I were brought together by a love of music in general and Rush one of the "in particulars"; he was a band geek, me a chorus geek, we both grew up in families where music was a central part of life and have carried that forward. Between the music and Monty Python, we were made for each other, lol!

[awoke_in_2003]

18. Too libertarian for me...

and their music sounds too perfect.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

16. some great lines from that one!

No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air.


FROM IMDB in relation to your quip :

Azrael: Ah, come on! Don't tell me you NEVER questioned the judgement, Serendipity.

Serendipity: No. It never bothered me. So you were an artist! Big deal! Elvis was an artist. But that didn't stop him from joining the service in time of war. And that's why he's The King, and you're a schmuck.

[Sheepshank]

6. I have an opinion. However, I choose not to elaborate

is the result of that silence, the same as not having an opinion (for the purposes of a discussion board)?

[guillaumeb]

8. Definitely. Another fence sitter.

Just my opinion.

[Sheepshank]

11. NOPE, NOPE. As it turns out I have a very strong opinion.

am I required to voice that opinion, to be seen to get off the fence?

you are judging with malice...just my opinion

[hfojvt]

13. silence is consent

Which then works okay if your opinion is in favor of the status quo.

Not so well for the people looking for a do-over or take-back.

Time reversal technology would be so handy, maybe the Omega 13 could be activated.

[Sheepshank]

15. nope, don't agree there either.

the adage, "If you don't have anything nice to say, then dont' say anything at all". There is absolutely no implied consent there...in fact it's more of admission in the other direction....you dislike the person or the action etc but would rather not say it out loud. THAT is not consent.

explain to me the nature of the consent, should the question be "Hillary or Sanders" and my response is that "I have a strong opinion, I just dont' want to say it out loud". Just what am I consenting to?

[hfojvt]

17. given the polling numbers

unless the Sanders people work like heck, Hillary wins the nomination in a cake walk.

If you keep silent, you are consenting to that.

Of course, if you are like me, and have the opposite (or is it the reverse?) of savoire faire, then by opening my mouth I can perhaps convince people to do the opposite of what I want.

[Sheepshank]

19. I see your point.

However, Like you I don't think my opinion here sways anyone. If anything, the fact that I dont work hard to piss off persons by vitriolic attempt at persuasion is probably the best bet right now lol

[guillaumeb]

20. You accuse ME of malice?

An opinionated fence sitter with a predisposition to judge?

I could be offended. or not.

[Sheepshank]

21. With malice...legal term.

[guillaumeb]

22. Even worse.

Malice in defamation?


A very bizarre post, by the way. And I say this with the complete absence of malice.

[Sheepshank]

23. Personal victimization is a poor debate technique

Done with you and you continued attempts at martyrdoms.

[upaloopa]

7. Seems to me things have gotten more civil

around here the last day or two.

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. As long as the pizza didn't come from those RW Fundies in Indiana,

I won't comment, either.

[Skittles]

24. you want I should kick your non-positioned ass, bluestateguy?

I WILL MAKE YOU TAKE A POSITION; yes INDEED